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A route for private firms to go public by merging with a listed special purpose acquisition company, bypassing a traditional IPO.
Evernorth, listed on Nasdaq as XRPN, held about 473 million XRP and raised about $300 million in cash when its Armada merger closed. The Q4 deployment is the first test of whether the treasury earns anything beyond price exposure.
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Evernorth has put former Coinbase Asset Management co-CIO Hugo Jeandesboz in charge of the roughly 473 million XRP it held at closing. The stated goal is more XRP per share, a ratio that moves with the share count as well as the token count.
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Evernorth named Coinbase veteran Hugo Jeandesboz chief investment officer as XRPN began trading on Nasdaq with about 473 million XRP. His mandate is yield on a stack Cointelegraph prices at $657 million and Cryptobriefing at $672 million.
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Evernorth closed its SPAC merger with about 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash ahead of a planned October 12 Nasdaq debut as XRPN. Only about 84 million of the tokens were bought for cash, crypto.news reported from proxy figures, so fresh XRP demand depends on how the company spends its money.
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Evernorth now expects its XRP treasury to start trading on Nasdaq as XRPN on October 12, four days later than it guided on October 1. The slip is small, but both dates are still expectations that hinge on customary closing conditions and Nasdaq's listing requirements.
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Oratomic raised $475m at a $5.4bn valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, as Gartner forecast more than half of quantum startups will close by 2030. Anyone signing a multi-year quantum contract now has to judge whether the vendor lasts to its own delivery date.
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Evernorth pushed its merger close to Oct. 9 and the Nasdaq debut of XRPN, set to hold about 473 million XRP, to Oct. 12. Armada II's public trust supplies about a sixth of the deal's cash; private placements and notes supply the rest.
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StablecoinX, on Nasdaq since June 26, now trades 24/7 against USDT on Binance's bStocks, with one custodied share behind each token. The extra hours wrap a company whose value still moves with its main asset, Ethena's ENA governance token.
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OpenPayd, a London payments firm with $73 million of revenue, expects its Titan merger to close by year-end and fund a US launch by April 2027. With 43 state licenses already bought, the listing mainly supplies cash and shares for the acquisitions its CEO says come next.
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Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, so a 473 million XRP treasury lists on Nasdaq as XRPN on Oct. 8. Only about $300 million of the $1 billion-plus raised is cash, and investors contributed XRP directly for much of the rest.
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Paragon, maker of the Graphite spyware, will go public through a Nasdaq SPAC merger at a $1.25 billion pre-money enterprise value. The price rests on $267 million in revenue, up 29%, earned jointly with REDLattice, a contractor to US defense and government agencies.
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Effectiveness clears a disclosure hurdle, and the harder question is whether investors still pay above book for a company whose main job is holding one token, when Galaxy says that premium has already gone.
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The question of when a robot driver is good enough has been the industry's to answer. NHTSA's new consortium with SAE is meant to produce the competency test that would settle it, with the agency's rulemaking to follow.
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Blockfusion turned a decommissioned power plant into a cryptomining campus, and its subsidiary has now signed CoreWeave to a definitive 15-year lease. The megawatt and revenue figures still date from June.
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The Ann Arbor company brings 550,000 commercial autonomous rides and a fully committed $120 million PIPE to a $1.4 billion enterprise value. How much more cash it gets depends on ACP Holdings' shareholders.
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